Russell Glass, CEO of Headspace Health. Headspace The mental health market is due for more deals as startups contend with a tight funding environment.Some startups appear to be preparing to go public, while others may be clamoring for a buyout.Analysts predict these startups could get bought, make acquisitions, or IPO in the next year. This year co...
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The cast of Critical Role Critical Role Critical Role started off as a Twitch livestream, but it now mostly rolls out pre-recorded episodes.The crew returned to its chaotic roots to promote Daggerheart, a new game it created in-house.Daggerheart is positioned to be an answer to Hasbro's D&D — the game that CR became famous for playing. For a crew t...
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg celebrated his 40th birthday on May 14, 2024. @zuck via Instagram Silicon Valley, it's time you noticed how one of your boys is looking more and more like a Rap God.Mark Zuckerberg showed up to his 40th birthday bash in what looked like an Eminem-inspired outfit.The billionaire has been wearing similar rapper-st...
Krista Atkinson is taking weight-loss medication and worries what people will think. Courtesy Krista Atkinson My relationship with my body and weight loss has been a rollercoaster.It took a long time to learn to love my body, and I finally got there. But I'm now in a medical weight loss program, and I worry what other people will think. If you'd t...
The Superalignment team at OpenAI is now without both of its chiefs, machine learning researcher Jan Leike and cofounder Ilya Sutskever. NurPhoto/Getty Images Machine learning researcher Jan Leike and scientist Ilya Sutskever just resigned from OpenAI.Their team's job, essentially, was to make sure humans are safe from OpenAI's superintelligence.Th...
Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Mikhail Klimentyev/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin's top economic officials are outshining those in his military, wrote an analyst.Russia's economy appears resilient three years into its war with Ukraine.In contrast, Russia and Ukraine are fighting a war of attrition when Putin had expected ...
M142 HIMARS launches a rocket on Russian position on December 29, 2023 in Ukraine. Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images Ukrainian officials say the ban on US weapons firing into Russia is exposing them to attack.Russia invaded Kharkiv this past weekend, weeks after Ukraine said it was massing troops on the border.Parliament offi...
OpenAI released the latest version of its GPT tool NurPhoto Jan Leike, the co-lead of OpenAI's superalignment group, announced his resignation on Tuesday.Leike's exit follows the departure of Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist.Their departures come amid a series of high-profile exits from OpenAI's safety team in recent months. Ope...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai presents Google's Gemini. Google Google's Gemini in Search demo video, released Tuesday, made a factual error.Gemini suggested opening a film camera without a dark room, which would ruin the photos.Google's demo videos have made such mistakes in the past too. In two back-to-back days of big launches, OpenAI and Google showe...
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia. Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang received a $34.2 million compensation package in fiscal 2024.Huang's pay rose 60% from 2023, driven by Nvidia's stock surge amid demand for the company's AI chips.Nvidia's stock has tripled in a year, making it the third-most valuable company globally. Nvidia CEO Jensen H...
An aerial view shows a fallen billboard on a fuel station following a wind and dust storm in Mumbai, India, May 13, 2024. Prashant Waydande/Reuters Heavy winds blew down a billboard in Mumbai on Monday, crushing a petrol station and killing 14.Dozens of people were trapped for hours under the debris, with 75 people injured, authorities said.Authori...
Apple CEO Tim Cook must lead the company through the AI arms race. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Apple will have to swing big at its developer conference if it wants to be seen as serious in AI.While Google and OpenAI revealed impressive AI assistants this month, Apple rolled out new iPads.All eyes will be on Apple in June at its WWDC, according to ...
IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. Alex Wong via Getty Images IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says AI will hit the job market "like a tsunami.""We have very little time to get people ready for it, businesses ready for it," she said on Monday.In January, Georgieva predicted that AI will affect roughly 40% of jobs worldwide. The AI revolutio...
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To participate in the contest to win the DeLorean, entrants need to build an app using the Gemini API, record a demo video about the app and publish and submit it to the competition. Read More
An abrupt and sudden announcement that is in many ways, poorly timed, coming on the heels of OpenAI's announcement.Read More
Stumble Guys launches on PlayStation with cross-progression, allowing users to play with friends on mobile, PC and Xbox.Read More
Google says it plans to add some Project Astra capabilities to the Gemini mobile and web experiences later this year.Read More
Attention offloading distributes LLM inference operations between high-end accelerators and consumer-grade GPUs to reduce costs.Read More